CN100531182C - Network apparatus and its operation protection method and network communication system using same - Google Patents

Abstract

A network device, which can execute intermediary software stored in an application server, said network device includes a receiving module, a first detection module, a second detection module and a processing module. Wherein, the receiving module receives a user instruction. The first detection module is used to detect whether the intermediary software is in use according to user instructions. The second detecting module is used for detecting whether the user instruction is preset to be processed by the intermediate software according to the use state of the intermediate software. The processing module is used for processing the user instruction when the intermediary software is not in use or the user instruction is not preset to be processed by the intermediary software. The network equipment of the present invention has the protection function of misoperation and can ensure the stability of the system.

Description

Network equipment and its operation protection method and network communication system using it

【Technical field】

The invention relates to a network device, in particular to a network device capable of executing external intermediary software.

【Background technique】

As users have increasingly diversified functional requirements for network products, especially consumer electronics products, such as digital set-top boxes (Set-Top-Box, STB), more and more manufacturers combine external intermediary software in such products (Middleware) to achieve more functions. Since the intermediary software is between the operating software and the application software, it can provide an environment for running and developing upper-level application software, and help users develop and integrate complex application software. Therefore, network products that execute intermediary software can provide richer and more complete functions. to meet the needs of users.

The intermediary software is software outside the network product. During the use of the network product, the functions performed by the intermediary software have been preset. Execution will lead to system conflicts and waste of resources. For example, when the intermediary software is executing a function of "returning to the previous page", the user sends a message of "returning to the homepage", and the function of "returning to the homepage" is preset to be executed by the intermediary software. Under normal circumstances, the network product calls the intermediary software to perform the corresponding function, but at this time the intermediary software is processing the function of "return to the previous page", that is, it is in use, and the function of "return to the home page" will be executed by the network product itself. Therefore, system conflicts and resource waste are caused, resulting in system instability.

【Content of invention】

In view of this, it is necessary to provide a network device with a function of protection against misoperation to ensure the stability of the system.

In addition, it is also necessary to provide a communication system, which adopts a network device with a function of protection against misoperation to ensure the stability of the system.

Thirdly, it is also necessary to provide a network device operation protection method to prevent the occurrence of misoperation of the intermediary software and ensure the stability of the system.

A network device, which can execute intermediary software stored in an application server, the network device includes a receiving module, a first detection module, a second detection module and a processing module. Wherein, the receiving module receives a user instruction. The first detection module is used to detect whether the intermediary software is in use according to user instructions. The second detecting module is used for detecting whether the user instruction is preset to be processed by the intermediate software according to the use state of the intermediate software. The processing module is used for processing the user instruction when the intermediary software is not in use or the user instruction is not preset by the intermediary software.

A network communication system is used for invoking and executing an intermediary software. The network communication system includes a switch, an application server, a network device and a network device server. Wherein, the application server is connected with the switch and is used for storing the middleware. The network device server is also connected to the switch and used to store the address of the application server. The network equipment can execute middleware, which includes a receiving module, a first detection module, a second detection module and a processing module. Wherein, the receiving module receives a user instruction. The first detection module is used to detect whether the intermediary software is in use according to user instructions. The second detecting module is used for detecting whether the user instruction is preset to be processed by the intermediate software according to the use state of the intermediate software. The processing module is used for processing user instructions according to the use state of the middleware or the detection result of the second detection module.

A network device operation protection method, which is applied to network devices, the network device operation protection method is used to prevent an intermediate software stored in an application server from misoperation, the network device operation protection method includes network equipment receiving A user command; the network device detects whether the intermediary software is in use according to the user command; when the intermediary software is in use, the network device detects whether the user command is pre-set to be processed by the intermediary software; and when the user command is not pre-set by the intermediary software , the network device processes user instructions.

The network device of the present invention uses the first detection module and the second detection module to detect whether the user command is pre-set to be processed by the intermediary software, so as to prevent the occurrence of misoperation of the intermediary software, ensure the stability of the system, and save system resources.

【Description of drawings】

FIG. 1 is an application environment diagram of a network device of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is an internal block diagram of the network device of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of an embodiment of a network device operation protection method according to the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a flow chart of another embodiment of the network device operation protection method of the present invention.

【Detailed ways】

FIG. 1 is an application environment diagram of a network device 40 of the present invention, wherein multiple network devices 40 are connected to a network device server 10 through a switch 30 , and a remote application server 20 is also connected to the switch 30 . The application server 20 is used to store an intermediary software (Middleware), and its address is stored in the network equipment server 10, and the network equipment 40 reads the address of the application server 20 in the network equipment server 10 through the switch 30, and then invokes and executes the middleware . In this embodiment, the network device 40 is a digital set-top-box (STB), and the network device server 10 is a set-top-box server (STBServer).

FIG. 2 shows an internal block diagram of the network device 40 of the present invention. The network device 40 includes a receiving module 401 , a first detection module 402 , a second detection module 405 , a storage module 406 and a processing module 407 . Wherein, the receiving module 401 is used for receiving a user instruction. In this embodiment, the user command can be a button message, for example, a "return to the homepage" button message. Moreover, the user instruction can be pre-set to be processed by the intermediary software, or be processed by the network device 40 . The first detection module 402 is used to detect whether the intermediary software is in use. If the intermediary software is in the non-use state, it can be confirmed that the user instruction is pre-set to be processed by the network device 40, rather than the intermediary software; if the intermediary software is in use, that is, the intermediary software is executing other preset functions, such as To execute the function of "returning to the previous page", it is still necessary to further determine whether the user instruction ("returning to the home page") is pre-set to be processed by the intermediary software. In this embodiment, the first detecting module 402 includes a reading module 403 and a comparing module 404 .

In the first detection module 402 , the reading module 403 reads the address of the application server 20 through the switch 30 , and the address of the application server 20 is stored in the network device server 10 . The comparison module 404 is connected between the reading module 403 and the second detection module 405, and is used for comparing the address of the application server 20 with the address of the page currently loaded by the network device 40, so as to determine the use status of the middleware. When the address of the application server 20 is the same as the address of the currently loaded page of the network device 40, the intermediary software is now in use; . In this embodiment, the address of the page loaded by the network device 40 and the address of the application server 20 are global resource locator (Uniform Resource Locator, URL) addresses.

The second detection module 405 is respectively connected to the receiving module 401 and the first detection module 402, and is used to further detect whether the user instruction is preset to be processed by the middleware according to the use state of the middleware. In other words, when the intermediary software is in use, the second detection module 405 detects whether the user instruction exists in the function table of the intermediary software. In this embodiment, the function table of the intermediary software is used to store preset functions processed by the intermediary software, and is stored in the storage module 406 connected to the second detection module 405 .

The processing module 407 is connected to the first detection module 402 and the second detection module 405 respectively, and is used for processing user instructions according to the use state of the middleware or the detection result of the second detection module 405 . In other words, when the intermediary software is not in use or the user instruction is not preset to be processed by the intermediary software, the processing module 407 processes the user instruction.

FIG. 3 is a flow chart of an embodiment of a network device operation protection method according to the present invention. In step S310, the receiving module 401 receives a user instruction. In step S330, the first detection module 402 detects whether the intermediary software is in use at this time according to the user instruction. When the intermediary software is not in use at this time, the user command is preset to be processed by the network device 40 instead of the intermediary software. Step S370 is executed, and the network device 40 processes the user command. When the intermediary software is in use, step S350 is executed, and the second detection module 405 further detects whether the intermediary software is preset to process user instructions, that is, detects whether the user instruction exists in the function table of the intermediary software. When the user instruction is not preset to be processed by the intermediary software, that is, the user instruction does not exist in the function table of the intermediary software, step S370 is executed, and the network device 40 processes the user instruction. When the user instruction is preset to be processed by the intermediary software, that is, the user instruction exists in the function table of the intermediary software, the system flow ends.

FIG. 4 shows the specific flowchart of FIG. 3 . In FIG. 4 , steps S331 and S333 are the specific flowchart of step S330 in FIG. 3 , and the rest of the steps are the same as those in FIG. 3 . Wherein, in step S331 , the reading module 403 reads the address of the application server 20 , which is stored in the network device server 10 . In step S333, the comparison module 404 compares whether the address of the application server 20 is the same as the address of the page currently loaded by the network device 40, that is, detects whether the intermediary software is in use at this time. If the address of the application server 20 is identical to the address of the currently loaded page of the network equipment 40, then the intermediary software is in use at this moment; .

Claims (11)

1. network equipment, it can carry out the middleware that is stored in an application server, and prevents the generation of described middleware operation error, it is characterized in that the described network equipment comprises:

One receiver module is used to receive a user instruction;

One first detection module is used for detecting described middleware according to described user instruction and whether is in user mode;

Whether one second detection module is used for user mode according to middleware and detects described user instruction and preestablish by described middleware and handle; And

One processing module, when being used for described middleware and being in non-working condition or described user instruction be not to preestablish to handle described user instruction when handling by described middleware.

2. the network equipment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that described first detection module comprises:

One read module, the address that is used to read described application server; And

One comparison module, it is connected between described read module and described second detection module, the address that is used for more described application server address and the current load page of the described network equipment, and when described application server address is identical with the address of the current load page of the described network equipment, determine that described middleware is in user mode, when inequality, determine that described middleware is in non-working condition in the address of described application server address and the current load page of the described network equipment.

3. the network equipment as claimed in claim 2 is characterized in that the described network equipment current load page address and described application server address are the URL(Uniform Resource Locator) address.

4. the network equipment as claimed in claim 1 is characterized in that comprising a memory module, and it links to each other with second detection module, is used to store the menu of middleware, and described menu is used for storage and preestablishes by the handled function of middleware.

5. the network equipment as claimed in claim 4 is characterized in that described second detection module is used for detecting the menu whether user instruction is present in middleware.

6. network communication system, be used to call and carry out a middleware, it is characterized in that described network communication system comprise a switch, an application server, just like each the network equipment and a network device server of claim 1 to 5, wherein, application server links to each other with switch, is used to store middleware; The network equipment server also links to each other with switch, is used to store application server address; The network equipment is used for reading by switch the address of network device server application server, in order to carry out middleware.

7. a network equipment operation protection method is applied in the network equipment, and described network equipment operation protection method is used for preventing that one is stored in the generation of the middleware operation error of an application server, and described network equipment operation protection method comprises:

The described network equipment receives a user instruction;

The described network equipment detects described middleware according to described user instruction and whether is in user mode;

When described middleware was in user mode, whether the described network equipment detected described user instruction and preestablishes by described middleware processing; And

When described user instruction preestablishes not is when being handled by described middleware, the described user instruction of described network device processing.

8. network equipment operation protection method as claimed in claim 7 is characterized in that detecting the step whether middleware be in user mode and comprises when intermediary's software is in non-working condition the step of network device processing user instruction.

9. network equipment operation protection method as claimed in claim 7 is characterized in that detecting the step whether middleware be in user mode and more may further comprise the steps:

Read application server address;

Whether more described application server address is identical with the address of the current load page of the described network equipment;

If identical, determine that described middleware is in user mode; And

If different, determine that then described middleware is in non-working condition.

10. network equipment operation protection method as claimed in claim 9; it is characterized in that the current load page of the comparison application server address and network equipment address whether identical step comprise when application server address and the current load page of network equipment address are inequality the step of network device processing user instruction.

11. network equipment operation protection method as claimed in claim 10 is characterized in that the described network equipment current load page address and described application server address are the URL(Uniform Resource Locator) address.

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